McDougal's Honolulu MysteriesClarence Darrow Argued His Last Case in Honolulu

In 1932, America's most famous criminal defense lawyer sailed to Honolulu to defend Lt. Thomas Massie,

Mrs. Grace Fortesque and the two other men accused of murdering Joseph Kahahawai. This sensational trial exposed the military control of Hawaii, a "sugar-coated fortress" and the inequities of racial control. Darrow, a champion of unpopular causes, had attained national fame with his defense of the murderers Leopold and Loeb and support for John T. Scopes, charged with teaching evolution in the famous "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee. Now you can visit the actual courtroom where this renown figure in American criminal justice argued his last case before retiring.

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CaucasiansThe Massie Rape Case

Thomas Massie, a naval officer, and his young wife, Thalia, attended a party at the Officers Club. After drinking and dancing all evening, they got into a row and Thalia rushed out in a huff. A few hours later, Thalia was at home, confused and hysterical, claiming to have been raped by some local men. On the most circumstantial evidence, Joseph Kahahawai and four friends of mixed ethnic background were accused. In a highly controversial trial rife with racial tensions, the verdict ended in a hung jury.

While a new trial was being set, Kahahawai and his friends were out on bail. Seeking revenge, Thomas Massie and Grace Fortescue, Thalia's mother, kidnapped Joseph Kahahawai with a plan of extracting a confession from him. They were aided by two enlisted men assigned to guard Thalia. While questioning Joseph, they killed him and attempted to dump his body in the sea but were apprehended. Another controversial trial-this time for Mrs. Fortescue, Massie, and the accomplices-followed. Clarence Darrow, the famous lawyer, sailed to Hawaii to defend them. For killing Kahahawai, these people served one hour of imprisonment in the judge's private chambers. The other four, acquitted with Joseph Kahahawai, maintain innocence of the rape to this day. Later, the Massies divorced, and Thalia went on to become a depressed alcoholic who took her own life.

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From left to right, Clarence Darrow, and defendants ; two navy sailors, Lieutenant Thomas Massie, and

Grace Hubbard Fortescue. To the right of Mrs. Fortescue is her daughter, Thalia Fortescue Massie.Thalia Fortescue Massie (born February 14, 1911 in Washington, D.C.) was the daughter of Grace Hubbard Fortescue and the wife of a Navy lieutenant and the genesis of what is now known as the Massie-Kahahawai Case. She claimed that in September, 1931, a group of Hawaiian men had raped her at Ala Moana Beach in Honolulu. Subsequently, five young men, two of Hawaiian ancestry, two of Japanese ancestry, and one of Chinese ancestry were arrested and charged with rape. With evidence presented demonstrating that none of the accused could have committed the crime, the jury deadlocked and all five were released on bail. Grace Fortescue was deeply disturbed by the release and one of the defendants, a native Hawaiian named Joseph Kahahawai, was later found dead in the back seat of her car. Defended by attorney Clarence Darrow, of the Scopes Monkey Trial, Fortescue was eventually tried and convicted of manslaughter. Originally sentenced to 10 years, her sentence was commuted to one hour in the executive chambers of Governor Lawrence Judd of the Territory of Hawaii, a Republican. The commutation of Fortescue's sentence was perceived by native Hawaiians and other citizens as a gross miscarriage of justice in the Territory. Thalia's claim and the subsequent events were seminal in strengthening the labor-union movement in Hawaii and the resolve of concerned citizens that formed the Hawaii Democratic Party.

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Grace Hubbard Fortescue (1883-1979)Grace Hubbard Fortescue brashly told a journalist that January 8, 1932, was "the day of the murder" before she went on trial for the killing of Joseph Kahahawai. A member from birth of the U.S. social elite, Fortescue was accustomed to doing anything she wished. She had no fear of calling Kahahawai's death just what it was, a murder, because she had no reason to believe that she would ever be punished for her role in it. In her mind, killing a man to save her daughter's reputation was completely and undeniably justified.Bell's NieceBorn in 1883, Grace Fortescue was the granddaughter of Gardiner Hubbard, a wealthy financier who became the first president of Bell Telephone. Hubbard had backed Alexander Graham Bell, his son-in-law and Grace's uncle, for the commercial debut of Bell's invention, the telephone. Grace grew up playing in the sprawling grounds of Twin Oaks, the mansion her grandfather built in the upscale Rock Creek area of Washington, D.C.Society GirlAs a young debutante, Grace found her cultured background served her well. In 1910, she married Major Granville "Rolly" Fortescue, who was in the Rough Riders. He had served with Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War and had been wounded at San Juan Hill. The young couple embarked on a life of travel and privilege.Keeping Up AppearancesWhen her husband failed to be as financially successful as she had expected, Grace Fortescue did all in her power to maintain a façade of success. She knew the value of appearances. As soon as she received a cable from her son-in-law, Lieutenant Thomas Massie, saying that her daughter Thalia had been assaulted, Fortescue packed her trunk for the long trip to Hawai'i.Murder Without RemorseThough Thalia was a controversial and somewhat disliked figure in her Hawai'ian Naval circles, Fortescue was dismayed to hear her daughter's "good name" drawn through the mud. After the case against Thalia's alleged assailants ended in a mistrial, Grace set her mind to squashing the gossip purporting that Thalia had made up the rape. Mrs. Fortescue and Lieutenant Massie came to the conclusion that the only way to correct the terrible injustice against Thalia's reputation was to secure a confession from one of the accused men. Whether or not there was a plan to kill Kahahawai before kidnapping him, Grace Fortescue certainly did not exhibit any remorse about his death. As New York Times journalist Russell Owen reported in an exclusive interview on February 7th, two months before Fortescue's trial, "Mrs. Fortescue's chief concern seems to be that the affair was bungled."Beyond JusticeNor did Fortescue's friends in high places seem troubled by her criminal role. The deck of the Alton, where the four defendants were held in protective custody by the Navy before and during the trial, was covered stern to bow with floral arrangements and notes of encouragement from friends in politics and society. Friends of the family, possibly including Navy personnel, raised the money to pay the nation's top defense attorney, Clarence Darrow, to lead the defense in The Territory of Hawai'i vs. Grace Fortescue, et al. U.S. newspapers ran banner headlines characterizing Kahahawai's death as an "honor killing" and reporting sympathetically about Fortescue and Massie's revenge -- justifiable, in many Americans' minds -- against Thalia's alleged assailant.A Charming PrisonerGrace's composure upon being arrested mesmerized the reporters and police officers on the scene. After the indictment, she spent one night in jail, where her poise endeared her to journalists and jail personnel. Absurdly enough, Grace Fortescue invited the jail matron and the cook to join her for a cup of coffee in her cell. The importance of appearing refined and calm at all times -- and denying that her actions were criminal -- perhaps paralleled Darrow's belief that "you never see a good looking woman convicted of murder or manslaughter -- or refused alimony."UnscathedFortescue's ability to weather the Hawai'ian storm she helped create enabled her literally to get away with murder. Though she was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Kahahawai, Fortescue had her sentence commuted from ten years in prison to an hour spent with the territorial governor, after white outcry against the guilty verdicts. Grace Fortescue headed back to the States and made money off of her story, then settled down to live out her days in leisure and comfort after inheriting a fortune from her father. She died in 1979, at the age of 95, outliving both her daughter Thalia and her son-in-law.

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MASSIE CASE Clarence Darrow Final Court Case

You are bidding on a paperback titled The Massie Case by Peter Packer and Bob Thomas -- this book was published in 1966, this printing is from 1984. It is in fair shape with 186 pages. TROUBLE IN PARADISE. The young Navy wife wandered alone one night into Honolulu's "native section" and returned home badly bruised and dishevelled. Something horrible has happened," she cried. THALIA MASSIE TOLD A LURID TALE OF GANG RAPE THAT SPARKED MURDER, TWO SENSATIONAL TRIALS AND AN INFERNO OF RACIAL TURMOIL! Lt. Tommy Massie -- the outraged husband, whose determination to wrench a confession from his wife's assailants led to murder. Mrs. Fortescue -- the avenging socialite mother who evolved the plan that ended in one man's death and a storm of racial hatred. Clarence Darrow -- the world-famous lawyer, bought out of retirement by a $25,000 retainer to defend Massie and Fortescue in a bizarre case that would blacken his sterling reputation. THE MASSIE CASE -- As senators and citizens urged measures to crush the "Yellow Peril" -- as the tabloids fueled the racial prejudice that would cause an island paradise to erupt with long-simmering unrest ...only one woman knew the truth behind it all -- Thalia Massie. The bored restless wife whose mysterious adventure in the "native section" changed Hawaii forever.

WOODALL, R., 1985. Limited vision: A personal experience of mining geology and scientific mineral exploration. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 32:231-237."In 1957 WMC began its search for a sediment hosted copper deposit in the vast Proterozoic of Australia, a search which would last 19 years and cost $12 million in today's money terms. Our perception at the time dictated that the search be concentrated where there were signs of copper in favourable host rocks - shales like those of the African Copperbelt or lavas like those of Michigan. Limited vision took us to the remote Warburton Ranges, and to the Fortesque Group in the Pilbara. Only when science opened our eyes to the importance of looking for copper where events may have sourced copper did improved vision enable us to see the potential of the Stuart Shelf in South Australia, where tectonics and geophysics subsequently guided us to Australia's greatest ore deposit at Olympic Dam." p232.(www.linex.com.au)

Ron Hackney PhD StudentDepartment of Geology & Geophysics The University of Western Australia

The Hamersley Province of Western Australia comprises a thick succession (up to 5-6 km) of largely volcanic rocks (Fortescue Group) overlain by a 2.5 km thick succession dominated by banded iron-formation units (Hamersley Group) (e.g. Harmsworth et al., 1990). The province contains an early Proterozoic foreland fold-and-thrust belt that hosts ten percent of known world reserves of iron ore. Renewed company interest in extending ore reserves requires knowledge of the subsurface structural geology, which will be gained by incorporating surface geological data with gravity, magnetic and seismic data. Data from two multi-channel seismic profiles obtained in 1997 (Figure 1) will constrain structural sections through the region, and gravity and magnetic measurements will be used to discriminate between possible alternative subsurface sections. Balanced structural sections across the fold-and-thrust belt will form the basis for an integrated model of the structural evolution of the Hamersley Province.

The longer of the two seismic lines, situated approximately 100 km west of Newman, begins in gently folded late Archaean to early Proterozoic Hamersley Group rocks close to the undeformed foreland and continues south into a fold belt dominated at all scales by north-verging asymmetric folds. The southern margin of the fold belt is bounded by a major normal fault that brings the younger sedimentary rocks of the late Paleoproterozoic Bresnahan Basin into contact with dolerites of the late Archaean upper Fortescue Group....A shorter line, 20 km east of Newman, runs approximately 40 km north-south from Hamersley Group rocks that progressively become more intensely deformed to the south before crossing into the Sylvania Inlier (Figure 1). This Archaean granite-greenstone terrain is juxtaposed against the younger rocks of the Hamersley and Fortescue Group, and the boundary is interpreted as a south-dipping fault contact involving over-thrusting of basement during formation of the fold-and-thrust belt (Tyler & Thorne, 1990; Tyler, 1991). Geophysical data along this seismic line provide important constraints for modelling the geometry of this important boundary.

Field relations, Landsat-5-Thematic Mapper multispectral images and geophysical data were examined in connection with the near-perfectly circular 80 km-diameter large Mingar Dome, western Pilbara Craton, north western Western Australia, with the aim of elucidating its origin. The dome consists of Fortescue Group (2.76 Ga) mafic volcanics and minor felsic volcanics and sediments unconformably overlying core inliers of granite (3.24 Ga), migmatite and amphibolite exposed by the Fortescue River at the center of the structure. Local pseudotachylite microbreccia vein systems occur immediately below the basal unconformity of the Fortescue Group on the Fortescue River, consisting of angular quartz grains and deformed feldspar and containing granitic fragments from the surrounding basement. No penetrative deformation lamella diagnostic of high velocity shock were observed, and the veins were possibly triggered by earthquakes. No direct evidence has been observed for a meteoritic impact connection of the Mingar Dome. A spin-off of the present study has been the Landsat-5-TM correlation and identification of a range of Fortescue Group and Hamersley Group volcanic and sedimentary rock types, allowing spectral fingerprinting of a range of lithological types, including separation of carbonates, shales, iron formations and a range of volcanic rock types using band ratios and principal components.

Project DescriptionPalaeogeography, sedimentology and tectonics of the Fortescue Group, southern Hamersley Province, Western Australia.The project aims to provide a palaeo-reconstruction of the southern margin of the Pilbara Craton approximately 2765 Million years ago when the Fortescue Group was deposited, unconformably, on the granite-greenstone terrane. This will be achieved by:Applying basin analysis techniques to the 3 lowermost formations of the Fortescue Group (Bellary Formation, Mount Roe Basalt and Hardey Formation) in order to determine distribution and facies.Palaeocurrent analysis and petrography of the Hardey Formation (quartz-rich sandstone) to determine provenance.. Geochemistry of the Hardey Formation to determine provenance and combined with points (1) & (2) will set up a tectonic discrimination diagram for Archaean sandstones.. Geochemistry (major and trace element) of basalt flows from the Bellary Formation and Mount Roe Basalt to determine tectonic setting.. Provide an age for the Bellary Formation using zircons from a tuffaceous unit. Method of analysis will be by SHRIMP..

Brief Summary of results to dateRegional mapping of the Bellary Formation at 1:15,000 scale has identified a series of basalt flows intercalated with fluvial and lacustrine sediments .The base of the Bellary Formation is not seen, but is assumed to be unconformable with the Archaean Granite-Greenstone terrane.Basalt flows 1-4metres thick, with autobrecciated flow tops, at the base of the formation are overlain by upward fining turbidites (Tb-Td). Flute Casts within the turbidites indicate a source region to the east.A poorly sorted conglomerate, with well rounded boulders of granite, chert, banded chert and basalt overlies the turbidites but is not laterally continuous.Above the turbidites and conglomerate are more basalt flows with coarse, but well sorted, quartzose sandstones and very fine siliceous mudstones.
The thickness of the Bellary Formation is approximately 400 metres. Preliminary geochemistry results indicate that the basalts have calc-alkaline to tholeiitic affinities.Conformably above the Bellary Formation is the Mount Roe Basalt, found only on the Bellary and Rocklea Domes. Two new locations of the Mount Roe Basalt have been identified on the Rocklea Dome. The distribution of the basalt on this dome may have been controlled by NNE trending growth faults, active during deposition of the lower Fortescue Group. Geochemistry results are similar to the Bellary Formation with calc-alkaline to tholeiitic affinities and LREE enrichment. More results are pending.The Hardey Formation is an extensive quartz-rich sandstone with localised conglomerates at the base. The base of the Hardey Formation is either unconformable with the basement or disconformable with the Mount Roe Basalt Restored palaeocurrent results from trough cross beds, parting lineations, flute casts and ripples indicate a source region from the east, north east. The average quartz composition from the Milli Milli and Rocklea Domes is 70-72 % with the remaining 30 ­28 % made up by plagioclase and K-feldspar. The Hardey Formation on the Bellary Dome has a higher component of quartz (83%) which is similar to the percentage of quartz in the Bellary Formation (82%). The percentage of heavy minerals is very low, and restricted to zircon, titanite, apatite and Fe-oxide minerals. These results suggest that the source the Hardey Formation was most likely of granitic origin.Initial palaegeographic reconstructions suggest that the lower Fortescue Group was deposited in a non-marine environment such as an alluvial braid plane, at the onset of rifting approximately 2.76 Billion years ago. Normal faults active during the rifting formed graben and half-grabens which acted as local depocentres for the Bellary and Mount Roe Basalt. The disconformity between the Mount Roe Basalt and Hardey Formation indicates a pause in the rifting, followed by erosion of a granitic source to the east and deposition of a fluvial sandstone and silts. Conformably above the Hardey Formation are pillow basalts, basalts, volcanoclastic sediments and komatiites of the upper Fortescue Group.ReferencesHall, C.E., Cooper, A.F., & Parkinson, D.L. (1995) Early Cambrian carbonatite in Antarctica. J.Geol.Soc.Lon. 152, 721-728
Baxter, L.J., Chisholm, J.M. & Hall, C.E. (1993) Ore block modelling and structural geology: Their integration. In: Robertson,I., Shaw, W., Arnold, C., & Lines, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Internation Mining Geology Conference. 31-34

* In early July of 1998, a presentation of these guidelines was given for the National Coalition of Girls' Schools at the Castilleja School in Palo Alto, California. Greg Fortescue and Don Buckley of Marymount School of New York were the presenters.

PurposeTo create an oversight committee to review and approve student-created, web-ready work for publication on a school World Wide Web site.Greg Fortescue and Don Buckley can be contacted at:greg_fortescue@marymount.k12.ny.usdon_buckley@marymount.k12.ny.us

StThomashall Lecture Hall

Posted by Greg Fortescue on December 11, 1998 at 10:41:01:In Reply to: why posted by tom on October 08, 1997 at 14:18:06:: why did thomas quit talking, writting, etc. during the last several years of his life ?

Rebecca (1940) is the classic Hitchcock gothic thriller and a compelling romance-mystery. An expensively-produced film by David O. Selznick (following his recent success with Gone With The Wind (1939)), it was Hitchcock's first American film, although it retained distinctly British characteristics. This film won for the director his first and only Best Picture Academy Award Oscar, beating out strong competition in 1940 from The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story, and Hitchcock's own Foreign Correspondent. The film also won an Academy Award for Cinematography, and was nominated in nine other categories, including Best Director. The film's screenplay is based on Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name..

Below is a table showing the Class Records as they stood in 1987 (The source for these was not as reliable as it is now!!) which should give an interesting perspective on todays records and those of an earlier period.

Starring Gregory Fortescue, Stevie Lee, N Paul Silverman, Steve Dixon, N Paul SilvermanAllegorical, Stephen King›inspired indie, shot in Michigan, about mysterious dissolving disease striking a small town. Unknown to all, disease is carried by a persecuted young man. Well-acted, inexpensive film is confident and aware of its own absurdities, though it falters at the very end.
(1988, Rated NR)

Places with a Past: New Site-Specific Art at Charleston's Spoleto Festival, New York: Rizzoli in association with the Spoleto Festival, Charleston, 1991. Text by Mary Jane Jacob.

Biography

Ann Hamilton was born in Lima, Ohio, on June 22, 1956. She earned a B.F.A. in textile design at the University of Kansas, and an M.F.A. in sculpture at Yale School of Art. Since graduating in 1985, she has made numerous installations in North America and Europe. In 1993 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Funding

Acknowledgments

The realization of a project of this scale is larger than any single effort. It is a process that relies on the commitment and participation of many individuals. Although it is not something you can point to and name, for me, the felt presence that informs this work grows out of the generosity of all who helped. I would like to acknowledge and thank for their support the core community that made this project.